CIA visits SXSW festival to offer tips on creative problem solving
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TheCIAis headed to theSouth By Southwestfestival to share tips on finding innovative solutions to complex challenges.Americas preeminent spy agency will deliver a presentation Sunday on creative problem solving at the annual SXSW music festival and tech conference held in Austin, Texas, the CIAannounced Monday.The typically tight-lipped agency said a CIA historian and one of the agencys public affairs officers will deliver the talk, entitled Mission Possible: The Spies Guide to Creative Problem Solving.Sundays presentation from the CIA comes during the first weekend of the event, which brings together thousands of artists, technology experts, business leaders and entrepreneurs.The agency said its tips on creative problem solving are designed to be helpful to anyone, even if their particular challenges dont include running covert surveillance, organizing clandestine meetups or sniffing out double agents.Come learn how creative problem-solving has helped resolve complex challenges weve faced in protecting national security, and how you can apply creative thinking to your own seemingly impossible missions, the agency wrote in a social media post promoting the talk.This months presentation comes at a tumultuous time for Americas intelligence community. The agency recentlyoffered buyout offersto employees as part of PresidentDonald Trumpand billionaireElon Musksefforts toshrink and reshapethe federal government.Trump haslong criticized Americas intelligence agencies, and his CIA director,John Ratcliffe, has promised big changes, claiming the agency has strayed from its original focus on human-collected intelligence.Ratcliffe is a former congressman and one-time director of national intelligence.David Klepper
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